Meg the corporate welfare queen?

What is most striking about Meg Whitman, who wants voters to believe she warmly embraces fiscal conservatism, is her welfare attitude toward business.

In her recent meeting with the Register's Editorial Board perhaps the most distressing position she took was that government needs to do more to attract business to California. "Do more" as in tax credits, tax breaks and other enticements to "compete" with surrounding states that are doing the same.

The playing of favorites by cutting particular companies or particular industries special deals is just wheeling-dealing politics of the old-fashion school. The effect is to pervert market influences and establish government as the benefactor who picks and chooses winners. And they do this incidentally with other peoples' money (taxes).

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